Tragedy on the Skookum Chuck

Onalaska, July 24—The pleasures of a family who proposed putting in the day blackberrying ended by the drowning of the mother and her daughter in the Skookum Chuck river near Bucoda. As nearly as can be learned, Mrs. Springer and her daughters, Myrtle, aged 6 years, and Maud, aged 11 years, attempted to cross the river to a place where the berries were thickest. In doing so, they had to use a boom of logs for a bridge. The logs turned, and all three went into the river. The mother and youngest child went to the bottom in the struggle. The older daughter, Maud, was carried downstream and caught on some drift. The mother and daughter were in the water half an hour when the bodies were recovered. Mrs. Springer was 30 years old and her husband is a logger.